Fear not, speed-hungry pro users: Those Geekbench scores for the new Mac Pro's CPU earlier this summer apparently don't tell the whole tale, with a second round of tests showing more impressive results.

You might have heard that Google's new Chrome browser for iOS is a heck of a lot slower than the desktop and Android versions everyone loves. Speed tests posted around the Internet weren't kind to Chrome, and Google even issued a statement blaming "platform specific technical specifications" for the perceived lethargy, a clear shot at Apple's refusal to give developers access to Safari's super-fast Nitro JavaScript engine.

We hope everyone got their 2011 Federal taxes off to Uncle Sam yesterday, because it’s now officially too late to file them unless your accountant was wise enough to request an extension. If the mere thought of enduring such pain and suffering continues to haunt you, keep reading -- there won’t be any further tax talk for our Wednesday, April 18, 2012 edition.

We all love Safari for iOS, but that doesn’t mean we can’t check out the competition from time to time. There are a fair number of options available in the App Store--many for free and most for less than a buck--all promising performance to rival Apple’s bundled browser.

We’ve tested them all (well, a few of them, anyway) and have whittled down our list to the top three Safari competitors. Our testing was somewhat scientific: Using an iPhone 4 running OS 5.01, we ran each browser through BrowserMark (JavaScript and HTML rendering) and DSLReport’s Speed Test (latency) for benchmarking purposes, and then timed each while loading the content-intensive New York Times desktop site and playing an HTML5 demo video on sublimevideo.net using both 3G and Wi-Fi connections. Whew!

The Opera Mini web browser got a welcome update last week, bringing a new look and feel as well as long-awaited native iPad and Retina Display support -- which got us thinking, could be it good enough yet to take the place of Mobile Safari for your iOS web surfing?

Apple introduced new MacBook Pro models packing Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge processors, which means it didn’t take long for them to be put on the bench and speed tested -- by which we mean GeekBench, of course!

We walked out of Apple's "Back to the Mac" event today with a shiny new MacBook Air on loan from the mad scientists at Cupertino. In fact, I'm writing this on the new 11.6-inch, 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Air right now. And it's rad.

Follow the jump to learn more about the new Air, and watch a video comparing its super-speedy application launching against a brand-new 15-inch Core i7 MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM. You'll be pleasantly surprised...

There is a stumbling block that must be surmounted before we as a species can hope to tackle such dark issues as war, famine, and racisim. It is a topic of heated debate, being bickered out in multiple locales around the world as we speak. It is a subject so divisive, that it has torn the bonds of brotherhood and family with the murmur of its discourse.

Of course, we're talking about what iOS device can claim to be the speediest of them all.

It goes without saying that the iPhone 4’s A4 processor smokes the previous iPhone 3GS, but those expecting a speed jump equal to the iPad might be disappointed, based on some new benchmarks run with one of the early arrival handsets.